Share of informal employment by industry and sex: Non-agricultural agrifood systems — Value — All age ranges or no breakdown by age — National — Non-agricultural agrifood systems by country
The Suite of Gender Indicators presents a set of indicators relevant to agrifood systems that are disaggregated by sex, with the aim of highlighting gender differences across agrifood systems. The initial set of indicators is based on those used in FAO’s 2023 Status of Women in Agrifood Systems (SWAFS) report and...
What the numbers show
Share of informal employment by industry and sex: Non-agricultural agrifood systems — Value — All age ranges or no breakdown by age — National — Non-agricultural agrifood systems is currently reported for 42 countries. The highest value is 95.69 % in Mali; the lowest is 5.17 % in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The median across all reporting countries is 67.19 %, and the mean is 61.13 %.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 19.
Over the past decade 26 countries rose and 16 fell. The largest increase was in Serbia (up 1,434.7%), and the largest decrease in Bosnia and Herzegovina (down 77.9%).
Share of informal employment by industry and sex: Non-agricultural: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mali | 95.69 % | 2023 | up 3.8% | rising |
| 1 | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | 90.3 % | 2024 | up 1.5% | rising |
| 2 | Uganda | 93.35 % | 2021 | up 10.0% | rising |
| 2 | Viet Nam | 54.34 % | 2022 | down 19.2% | falling |
| 3 | Senegal | 92.88 % | 2024 | up 2.3% | flat |
| 3 | Türkiye | 24.24 % | 2024 | down 24.6% | falling |
| 4 | Pakistan | 88.05 % | 2025 | up 15.4% | rising |
| 5 | India | 85.61 % | 2024 | down 3.5% | rising |
| 6 | Myanmar | 84.7 % | 2020 | down 5.4% | flat |
| 7 | Kyrgyzstan | 84 % | 2023 | up 0.0% | rising |
| 8 | Guatemala | 83.48 % | 2023 | up 7.0% | rising |
| 9 | Bangladesh | 83.32 % | 2024 | down 10.0% | falling |
| 10 | Honduras | 81.39 % | 2017 | up 119.7% | rising |
| 11 | Peru | 80.14 % | 2024 | up 7.4% | rising |
| 12 | Botswana | 79.9 % | 2024 | up 7.4% | rising |
| 13 | Rwanda | 79.02 % | 2024 | up 8.3% | rising |
| 14 | Zimbabwe | 78.55 % | 2024 | up 31.6% | rising |
| 15 | Sri Lanka | 76.66 % | 2023 | down 1.2% | rising |
| 16 | Egypt | 74.96 % | 2024 | up 38.7% | rising |
| 17 | El Salvador | 71.34 % | 2024 | down 7.0% | flat |
| 18 | Namibia | 70.21 % | 2018 | up 16.6% | rising |
| 19 | Palestine, State of | 67.63 % | 2024 | down 13.0% | rising |
| 20 | Zambia | 67.59 % | 2023 | down 7.8% | flat |
| 21 | Ecuador | 66.8 % | 2024 | up 48.7% | rising |
| 22 | Colombia | 66.73 % | 2024 | up 227.6% | volatile |
| 23 | Mexico | 65.89 % | 2024 | up 0.6% | flat |
| 24 | Panama | 62.02 % | 2024 | up 37.1% | volatile |
| 25 | Thailand | 58.08 % | 2024 | down 17.9% | volatile |
| 26 | Brunei Darussalam | 54.43 % | 2023 | down 8.2% | flat |
| 27 | Dominican Republic | 52.62 % | 2024 | up 561.1% | volatile |
| 28 | Jordan | 46.6 % | 2023 | down 22.6% | falling |
| 29 | Costa Rica | 44.04 % | 2024 | up 7.6% | flat |
| 30 | Grenada | 41.12 % | 2023 | up 14.7% | rising |
| 31 | Brazil | 40.98 % | 2024 | up 223.4% | rising |
| 32 | Serbia | 40.21 % | 2019 | up 1,434.7% | volatile |
| 33 | Georgia | 38.43 % | 2024 | up 5.1% | flat |
| 34 | Uruguay | 33.51 % | 2024 | up 33.3% | rising |
| 35 | Mauritius | 25.09 % | 2024 | down 37.4% | falling |
| 36 | Mongolia | 21.07 % | 2024 | down 52.3% | falling |
| 37 | South Africa | 9.55 % | 2024 | up 21.7% | volatile |
| 38 | North Macedonia | 7.77 % | 2024 | down 58.4% | falling |
| 39 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 5.17 % | 2024 | down 77.9% | volatile |
About this data
The Suite of Gender Indicators presents a set of indicators relevant to agrifood systems that are disaggregated by sex, with the aim of highlighting gender differences across agrifood systems. The initial set of indicators is based on those used in FAO’s 2023 Status of Women in Agrifood Systems (SWAFS) report and on the recommendations of an expert consultation held in December 2023, and covers key dimensions including economic participation, governance, agency, social norms, assets and services, education, health, and nutrition. Indicator selection was informed by expert judgment and by the availability of data with sufficient geographic and temporal coverage to enable meaningful comparisons across regions and over time. While most indicators are produced and published by FAO and other international organizations, the objective of this domain is to provide a one-stop shop for sex-disaggregated data on agrifood systems.